The Culture War - Tim Pool - Bill Burr Yells FREE LUIGI, Democrat Policy FORCED Insurance Companies To FLEE LA Wildfire

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00:01:00.300 The California wildfires have been devastating.

00:01:03.980 The death tolls now at 27.

00:01:05.680 The fires still rage on.

00:01:07.300 Winds have died down a bit, but there is concern they could come back.

00:01:11.260 But the question remains, who's at fault?

00:01:14.140 Was this mismanagement by government authorities?

00:01:16.980 Was this an act of nature or is climate change to blame?

00:01:21.180 Well, Bernie Sanders said, 0.99

00:01:22.420 You're a moron if you don't believe it's climate change because it's here and it's coming for all of us. 0.99

00:01:28.060 But I think the reality is, while we can look at wildfires occurring all the time, it was mismanaged. 1.00

00:01:35.560 Now, recently, Bill Burr, the comedian, went on Jimmy Kimmel and said that we're all a bunch of idiots because we think that they're doing a bad job in California. 0.95

00:01:45.000 Now, of course, to the firefighters, first responders, the people risking their lives, their heroes, nobody's criticizing the hard work. 0.98

00:01:52.400 We're criticizing the policy around, well, the Democratic politicians around fires, around the fire department, around insurance.

00:02:01.220 All of this has led to this catastrophe.

00:02:04.180 You know, they voted to build reservoirs and never did.

00:02:06.880 There's a dam that they were supposed to build a while ago, but it's blocked off because everyone's fighting about it.

00:02:10.760 The L.A. Fire Department was underserved, underfunded, did not have enough firefighters.

00:02:17.020 And we can point all these things out.

00:02:18.840 Now, I've criticized Bill Burr on this one before, but he takes it a step further, jokingly, I hope, yelling, free Luigi.

00:02:28.460 Because he's criticizing the insurance companies, saying no one's going to call them out. 1.00

00:02:33.480 These guys in their underwear are saying, why don't you fly a helicopter into the ocean at 100 knot winds, you moron. 0.97

00:02:39.460 But you're not going to call it the insurance companies who pulled out, won't cover these homes, and they're still going to pay themselves a bonus. 0.98

00:02:46.000 And then everybody claps and he yells, free Luigi.

00:02:48.360 Oh, I want to play the clip for you.

00:02:50.240 But let's talk about the insurance company scandal because, boy, oh boy, can I break it down for you.

00:02:55.840 First of all, I'm going to say the climate change argument I can debunk rather easily.

00:03:01.600 There's been a drought in California every single decade.

00:03:04.340 You can't blame drought and claim it's global warming.

00:03:07.600 But, of course, nearly every news outlet's doing that.

00:03:10.780 Let's break it down.

00:03:12.380 And I'll talk to you about how they passed a proposition in California restricting insurance companies from increasing rates.

00:03:18.940 They've mismanaged the forest floor and the brush floor, increasing the risk of wildfires.

00:03:24.760 They've put restrictions on what people can do with water.

00:03:28.360 Ultimately, the mismanagement leads to a situation where insurance company says, we can't mitigate the fire damage.

00:03:35.920 It keeps getting worse year after year.

00:03:39.400 We cannot do this anymore.

00:03:41.880 Little known fact.

00:03:43.180 Insurance companies have insurance companies.

00:03:45.580 And the insurance, I'm not kidding.

00:03:46.980 They're called reinsurers.

00:03:48.140 And the reinsurers are basically saying the same thing.

00:03:50.980 This is going to get worse.

00:03:52.800 It's not climate change.

00:03:54.460 It's mismanagement.

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00:04:41.060 Let's take a look at the first story from the New York Post.

00:04:43.160 Bill Burr unloads on insurance companies, praises Luigi Mangione in L.A. Fire Rant Free Luigi.

00:04:51.360 The winds moved, but, you know, the fire was coming and all that stuff, so I feel lucky.

00:04:56.860 Are you guys back here?

00:04:57.520 And I think everybody did a great job.

00:04:59.920 Yeah.

00:05:00.280 Unlike the Internet, you know?

00:05:01.440 Yeah, right.

00:05:01.940 I know.

00:05:02.400 Right?

00:05:02.740 Oh, my God.

00:05:03.660 All of these fire experts.

00:05:06.000 Why didn't you just fly a helicopter into the ocean?

00:05:09.100 You know what?

00:05:10.460 Looking at the footage on the Internet, I have determined that this here was mismanaged.

00:05:16.160 They're talking about looting, but CNN and Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance companies

00:05:21.040 that are just going to keep everybody's premiums and still give themselves a bonus.

00:05:25.180 Yes.

00:05:26.780 Free Luigi.

00:05:27.840 You know, to be honest, I'd call it a joke.

00:05:34.700 Bill Burr is a very funny guy.

00:05:36.040 I'm actually a big fan.

00:05:37.240 But as of late, he's just been towing this line which defends massive corporations and

00:05:42.900 government bureaucrats who did a bad job.

00:05:45.700 I'd like to say the Free Luigi comment was a joke, but tons of leftists have been posting

00:05:50.480 memes about this.

00:05:51.500 When news broke that insurance companies had previously pulled out of California, people

00:05:56.020 are posting memes where they have like a phone with Luigi Mangione on speed dial.

00:06:00.560 And I'm sure most of you know who he is.

00:06:02.520 He's the guy who murdered a health care insurance CEO in cold blood, blaming the insurance companies

00:06:08.300 for, unfortunately, what it is, is a government problem.

00:06:12.720 Before we get into the nitty gritty of how the insurance companies worked and how this is

00:06:16.980 the fault of the government, let's take a look at the direct fault of the government.

00:06:20.780 L.A. Fire Department bosses sent just five fire engines to Palisades Fire while holding

00:06:27.360 back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in the critical first hours.

00:06:32.600 New York Post reporting, Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters

00:06:36.860 and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control, sending just

00:06:41.600 five of the 40 available fire engines and holding back 1,000 firefighters, according to a

00:06:47.040 new damning report.

00:06:47.920 The critical decisions blasted by experts and ex-fire chiefs as a spate of missteps were

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00:07:09.480 And as extreme warnings were coming in about life-threatening winds that turned the blaze

00:07:17.800 into the most destructive in L.A. history, quote, you would have had a better chance to

00:07:23.600 get a better result if you deployed those engines.

00:07:26.360 Former LAFD battalion chief Rick Crawford told the L.A. Times, you give yourself the best

00:07:32.300 chance to minimize how big the fire could get.

00:07:34.760 If you do that, you have the ability to say, I threw everything at it at the outset.

00:07:40.280 That didn't happen here.

00:07:42.140 He continued, adding the choices were part of a domino effect of missteps by officials.

00:07:47.860 Officials held off on ordering hundreds of available fire crews to remain on duty for a

00:07:51.960 second shift last Tuesday, which would have doubled the manpower on hand to help battle

00:07:56.520 flames taking hold in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.

00:07:59.180 According to internal fire department records obtained by the Times, despite being available,

00:08:04.600 no extra engines were readied in the Palisades region prior to the fire breaking out there,

00:08:09.060 according to the logs.

00:08:10.560 L.A.'s deputy chief Richard Fields, who is in charge of staffing and equipment, stressed

00:08:14.400 that his plan was appropriate for immediate response and slammed critics for playing Monday

00:08:19.040 morning quarterback.

00:08:20.620 His boss, Chief Christian Crowley, also defended the decision.

00:08:24.560 The Times also reported that before the fires, LAFD leaders decided

00:08:29.060 not to deploy additional engines to fire prone areas like the Palisades.

00:08:33.120 However, nine engines were positioned in Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley in anticipation of

00:08:39.000 fires breaking out there.

00:08:40.440 So let me just throw it to you, Bill.

00:08:42.340 I don't think a former battalion chief is some random guy sitting in his underwear when he

00:08:48.120 says it was a domino effect of misstep after misstep after misstep.

00:08:51.940 I think it's fair to say that it was.

00:08:54.500 Now, of course, I can go through that huge whole list over and over again, as I had done.

00:08:58.680 But I think this should be enough context for all of you to understand that this guy going on Jimmy

00:09:03.700 Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel himself are misleading you.

00:09:06.800 Why?

00:09:07.200 I don't know.

00:09:08.100 I think Bill Burr doesn't pay attention and is making jokes.

00:09:11.040 But I'm really concerned about that free Luigi comment.

00:09:14.080 Why is it a joke to praise a murderer?

00:09:18.680 Well, look, I got to be honest.

00:09:20.540 People don't like insurance companies and I get it.

00:09:22.880 I really do.

00:09:24.320 But this is not an issue of just the private sector.

00:09:27.140 It's a combination of both.

00:09:29.060 I can't really blame an insurance company for being unable to insure property.

00:09:34.080 It's not the insurance company said, you know what?

00:09:36.440 We don't want to insure them because it cuts into our profits.

00:09:38.600 They said we are trying to increase premiums.

00:09:41.560 We are trying to make sure this is reasonable for the insurance company, but we keep losing

00:09:45.880 billions of dollars.

00:09:47.160 The regulation and the mismanagement make it impossible to do.

00:09:50.800 Of course, insurance companies want to make profits.

00:09:52.660 Duh, we get it.

00:09:53.620 But insurance companies are going to say, how much money can we make?

00:09:56.620 And does it make sense?

00:09:58.040 The reason why it doesn't make sense?

00:10:00.560 Mismanagement, a failure to build new reservoirs, to fill the existing reservoirs, to provide

00:10:05.840 proper funding to the L.A. Fire Department, to hire enough firefighters.

00:10:09.660 And eventually, the insurance company says, guys, it doesn't matter what we do.

00:10:13.420 If we insure this at any rate, the government is not going to do anything to mitigate fire

00:10:20.200 damage.

00:10:20.840 They're going to blame climate change.

00:10:22.860 We cannot, as a business, make this work.

00:10:26.760 AccuWeather estimates more than $250 billion in damages and economic loss from L.A.

00:10:31.460 wildfires.

00:10:31.980 To put the magnitude of loss into context, this latest damage and economic loss estimates

00:10:36.600 surpasses the numbers for the entire 2020 wildfire season.

00:10:41.820 So let's now break down the insurance argument with this article from the AP.

00:10:46.780 Going back almost two years, California insurance market rattled by withdrawal of major companies.

00:10:54.520 The date?

00:10:55.740 June 5th, 2023.

00:10:58.240 Hold on there a minute.

00:10:59.040 You mean to tell me that we've had advanced warning for over a year and a half that insurance

00:11:04.120 companies were pulling out because they could not deal with fire damage, and yet here we

00:11:09.420 are?

00:11:10.080 How is this anything but mismanagement?

00:11:12.460 You go back to this story.

00:11:14.000 This is AP news.

00:11:15.360 Everybody knew the risk of wildfires were increasing.

00:11:19.460 And what did the California government do about it?

00:11:22.580 Yeah, we know.

00:11:24.180 Not enough.

00:11:25.220 Let's call it that.

00:11:26.040 But let's break down how the insurance fell apart.

00:11:30.180 In 2023, the AP reported two insurance industry giants have pulled back from California's

00:11:36.480 home insurance marketplace, saying that increasing wildfire risk and soaring construction costs

00:11:40.660 have prompted them to stop writing new policies in the nation's most populous state.

00:11:45.400 State Farm announced last week it would stop accepting applications for all business and

00:11:49.600 personal lines of property and casualty insurance, citing inflation, a challenging reinsurance market,

00:11:55.500 and rapidly growing catastrophe exposure.

00:11:57.960 The decision did not impact personal auto insurance.

00:12:01.200 Quote, we take seriously our responsibility to manage risk.

00:12:05.080 State Farm said it's necessary to take these actions now to improve the company's financial

00:12:09.840 strength.

00:12:10.740 Allstate, another insurance powerhouse announced in November it would pause new homeowners,

00:12:15.200 condo and commercial insurance policies in California to protect current customers.

00:12:19.500 Quote, the cost to insure new home customers in California is far higher than the price they would

00:12:25.240 pay for policies due to wildfires, higher costs for repairing homes and higher reinsurance

00:12:30.620 premiums, all states said in a statement.

00:12:33.240 And of course, they report.

00:12:35.420 Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades

00:12:40.320 and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.

00:12:45.040 In recent years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state

00:12:49.720 history.

00:12:50.160 Some California homeowners already are going without coverage and a shortage of new policies

00:12:55.420 could make it more difficult to buy a home.

00:12:57.520 A state run pool that serves as the insurer of last resort for many could face pressure as

00:13:02.440 enrollment surge.

00:13:03.960 Now, many of you may not be familiar with what reinsurance is, and I absolutely love how 0.99

00:13:08.280 stupid our system is, but I guess it makes sense. 0.96

00:13:11.500 Reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies. 1.00

00:13:13.800 I kid you not.

00:13:15.860 The insurance company has an insurance company that if they have to pay out, some of their

00:13:20.940 costs are handled by their insurer.

00:13:23.000 It's weird.

00:13:24.200 And the insurance company's insurance rates have gone up.

00:13:27.620 They can't necessarily pass those premiums on to the customer, though they are trying.

00:13:31.300 So ultimately, they're just basically saying, hey, we can't do this.

00:13:34.600 Investopedia breaks it down.

00:13:36.740 Reinsurance definition.

00:13:38.220 How it works.

00:13:39.220 Quite simply, reinsurance.

00:13:41.280 Insurance for insurance companies.

00:13:42.720 Now, of course, I'm absolutely loving the climate change argument, and I definitely

00:13:47.920 want to tackle that.

00:13:48.920 But first, let's talk about the current state of insurance.

00:13:53.280 Now, as I mentioned, reinsurance premiums were going up.

00:13:56.000 The insurance companies are having an issue with it.

00:13:57.780 They did try to pass that on to the customer, but it ultimately still doesn't work.

00:14:02.920 The issue is, no matter how much money you charge, first of all, you probably can't.

00:14:06.860 If it's too much, the market will not abide and people won't pay for it.

00:14:10.160 They're basically going to say, I'm spending more insurance than the cost of fixing my

00:14:14.660 own home if it does get burned down.

00:14:16.420 The problem, failure of government to mitigate the disaster means.

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00:14:50.500 It's inevitable.

00:14:52.960 But let's take a look at the laws they passed so we can better understand.

00:14:56.480 Well, everybody's ragging on the insurance companies.

00:14:58.540 And to be honest, rightly so in some circumstances.

00:15:02.220 Don't get me wrong.

00:15:02.840 I don't want to defend insurance companies.

00:15:04.580 There is still something to consider.

00:15:06.360 There's a lot to consider.

00:15:07.320 But we have California Proposition 103.

00:15:10.100 A state statute passed in 1988 to regulate insurance rates and practices.

00:15:14.960 Basically, this means that insurers must get approval from the California Department of Insurance before they can change rates.

00:15:24.140 And this covers dwelling fires.

00:15:25.800 This means that insurance companies are basically like, hey, government, can we increase rates?

00:15:30.000 You're doing a bad job and we can't afford to cover this.

00:15:33.020 And what do you think the government's going to say?

00:15:35.800 Largely, no.

00:15:37.240 So the government is regulating the insurance premiums, and I'm not saying they don't allow premiums to go.

00:15:44.840 They do, but they still have their thumb on the scales, putting pressure on these companies.

00:15:48.960 So it's harder for them to move quickly enough.

00:15:51.020 And with the fires that were burning even last year, sorry, the insurance companies just said we're pulling out.

00:15:56.980 You can't blame a company for canceling a product that makes no money.

00:16:02.160 Politico reported this as, this could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California.

00:16:10.440 The damages could overwhelm the state's already stressed insurer of last resort.

00:16:15.900 The state's insurer of last resort, known as the FAIR plan, predicted that it would be able to pay out, saying,

00:16:22.580 we're aware of misinformation being posted online regarding the FAIR plan's ability to pay claims.

00:16:27.380 It is too early to provide loss estimates as claims are just beginning to be submitted and processed.

00:16:32.160 But California faces a double-barreled threat.

00:16:34.460 Private insurers could continue to drop policies and decline to write new ones,

00:16:38.260 as they've been increasingly doing since a series of severe fires beginning in 2017,

00:16:42.480 with the Tubbs fire in Northern California.

00:16:44.880 And the FAIR plan, which has been absorbing the shrinking private market,

00:16:48.600 could run out of money to pay its claims.

00:16:51.540 TheTimes.com brought us this report.

00:16:54.300 Why California's insurance crisis leaves wildfire victims helpless.

00:16:59.140 Policyholders in L.A. have faced a wave of cancellations,

00:17:02.160 by some of the largest companies in the sector.

00:17:04.500 They say, while the L.A. fires are still raging,

00:17:06.700 having killed 25 people and caused billions of dollars worth of damage,

00:17:09.980 Californians are also feeling the heat from a slower-burning crisis,

00:17:13.840 the dysfunction of the state's insurance market.

00:17:16.600 Faced with the escalating cost of wildfires and burdensome state regulations,

00:17:20.420 many insurance companies have ceased doing business in the state in recent years,

00:17:24.120 leaving some of those worst affected by the fires to rebuild without help.

00:17:27.660 In July, America's largest insurer, State Farm, canceled 1,600 insurance policies in Pacific Palisades,

00:17:35.940 the prosperous neighborhood that was the first to catch fire.

00:17:39.200 While State Farm continues to do business in the state,

00:17:41.700 many other companies, including Amgard, American National, and Falls Lake,

00:17:46.280 have stopped signing policies in California entirely.

00:17:49.740 One reason why is that California has become the land of enormous insurance payouts.

00:17:54.420 As global temperatures rise, the state has languished in a historic drought,

00:17:59.520 helping to create the conditions for unprecedentedly ferocious wildfires.

00:18:03.800 Eight of the state's most destructive fires have occurred since 2017.

00:18:08.600 I object to this line of logic.

00:18:12.520 You can argue climate change all day and night,

00:18:15.680 but it doesn't change the fact that we are dealing with massive mismanagement.

00:18:19.340 And I'm going to break down at least my argument.

00:18:22.060 By all means, you want to talk about climate change and all of these things, fine.

00:18:26.360 But isn't California the liberal bastion that has implemented tons of regulation over environmental issues?

00:18:32.920 Yes.

00:18:33.720 Have any of those regulations mitigated the risk of fire?

00:18:36.920 No.

00:18:37.820 So hold on.

00:18:39.160 They're the state largely telling you about climate change.

00:18:41.760 And what are they doing to solve the problem?

00:18:43.420 Apparently nothing.

00:18:44.600 Now we can take a look at, as I've already mentioned, ad nauseum.

00:18:47.920 Not enough firefighters.

00:18:49.380 The reservoirs were empty.

00:18:50.740 They haven't built the dams.

00:18:51.780 They haven't built the new reservoirs.

00:18:54.400 They did not dispatch LAFD and time.

00:18:58.560 And you want to tell me, but it's climate change?

00:19:02.460 Jumping over to our good friend Wikipedia makes it all so simple.

00:19:06.360 Major droughts in California history since 1900.

00:19:10.080 Tell me now, was the great industrial revolution responsible for the 1917 to 21 drought?

00:19:16.600 Was that carbon emissions?

00:19:18.380 Every single decade, except for the 1900s themselves, there has been a drought in California.

00:19:27.700 You've got the 10s, the 20s, the 30s, the 40s, the 50s, twice.

00:19:33.240 The 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and 90s, the 2000s, and the 2010s, and then today.

00:19:41.580 Tell me again why you think that's climate change.

00:19:44.420 Now, to be fair, Wikipedia also does mention climate change, saying that there's an increase

00:19:49.540 in temperature, it is having an impact.

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00:20:51.900 Fine, I can accept that, but I also need to point out, wildfires happened.

00:20:59.720 100 years ago, the state was substantially less developed,

00:21:02.900 so many of these wildfires may have gone largely unnoticed.

00:21:06.800 We have an expanding population, a massive urban center,

00:21:10.540 and a higher likelihood that wildfires will impact the public.

00:21:14.640 Thus, we will see the damage, the damage will cost lots of money,

00:21:19.480 and insurance companies will be overburdened.

00:21:21.900 If you go back to 1900, I'm sure there are wildfires.

00:21:24.580 I'm sure there's a lot of them.

00:21:25.620 Maybe there are more today.

00:21:27.000 But my point ultimately is this.

00:21:29.240 Droughts happen.

00:21:30.700 We know they happen.

00:21:32.120 California is not raking the ground floor like Donald Trump five years ago warned them to do.

00:21:38.760 So I don't think it's fair to blame climate change when we know they aren't doing what they've been tasked with.

00:21:46.340 Take a look at California Proposition 1, the water bond, in 2014.

00:21:50.300 They voted to build more water storage, dams and reservoirs,

00:21:53.700 to improve drinking water quality, and water recycling and flood management.

00:21:58.400 And guess what?

00:21:59.580 They didn't build any of these reservoirs.

00:22:02.060 Here's a story from CalMatters.

00:22:04.980 This reservoir on the Sacramento River has been planned for decades.

00:22:08.400 What's taking so long?

00:22:09.720 From 2023.

00:22:12.240 And then we have the Temperance Flat Dam.

00:22:14.140 This one's been on hold for a long time.

00:22:17.080 It's a proposed dam project on the San Joaquin River, west of Aubrey, California.

00:22:21.640 Construction of the dam is on hold, says Wikipedia.

00:22:24.320 The main purpose would be to supplement storage capacity in the upper San Joaquin River Basin.

00:22:28.940 Under the current proposal, Temperance Flat would slightly more than double water storage

00:22:33.520 on the San Joaquin River from below Friant Dam.

00:22:37.060 The project is highly controversial because it would flood scenic canyons and historic sites.

00:22:42.980 And now this next part you're going to love.

00:22:45.480 Why is it that some of these reservoirs aren't being built?

00:22:49.120 The Temperance Dam, we get it.

00:22:50.900 There's controversy over what it would do to these areas.

00:22:54.540 But what about these other reservoirs and water storage units?

00:22:56.940 Well, as it would happen, the state has environmental regulations, which means they have to do studies

00:23:05.460 on impact.

00:23:06.900 And because of how long it takes, they are in limbo.

00:23:10.140 I mean, come on.

00:23:11.080 We've talked about building high speed rail in this country for a long time.

00:23:14.740 And California, the bastion of green energy and fighting climate change, cannot get it done.

00:23:20.300 The problem is overregulation makes it impossible to make these moves.

00:23:25.980 So I throw it back to my good friend Bill Burr as we break down this whole story.

00:23:30.720 You, good sir, I hope jokingly said free Luigi.

00:23:34.360 This is the terrifying ignorance of the liberal mindset.

00:23:38.220 I know maybe I'm offending a ton of liberals by saying this.

00:23:41.000 But guys, I don't like joking about Luigi Mangione in this regard because too many people take

00:23:47.220 that stuff seriously.

00:23:48.580 The dude killed an insurance CEO in cold blood.

00:23:51.180 It changed nothing.

00:23:52.460 Rates aren't going down.

00:23:54.620 Some argue that violence does.

00:23:56.920 I don't want to live in that world.

00:23:58.760 And I don't think it actually does change things for the better.

00:24:01.120 It causes security and these companies to entrench themselves and hide what they're doing.

00:24:06.420 So here's the real issue.

00:24:09.140 It's a combination of factors.

00:24:10.600 Insurance companies are not innocent, but neither is the government.

00:24:14.600 And when you get corporate bloat and government regulation combined, you get some kind of weird

00:24:21.900 fat fascism.

00:24:23.800 The lucrative merger of corporation and state, some would call it.

00:24:27.220 Only in this instance, I wouldn't call it lucrative.

00:24:29.420 I would call it lazy.

00:24:31.280 Too many people want to blame the corporations because they see people getting rich.

00:24:34.600 Other people want to blame the government.

00:24:36.060 But really, it's a mixture of both.

00:24:38.520 We can't have monopolistic power on either side.

00:24:41.400 There needs to be decentralization.

00:24:43.620 Now, not all regulation is bad.

00:24:45.600 I think we should regulate some things.

00:24:46.960 Certainly we should.

00:24:48.160 I think a lot of chemicals in food should be regulated.

00:24:51.200 But we can clearly see in some regards, it does make the problem worse.

00:24:55.780 Insurance companies just say, we can't do it.

00:24:58.020 Thank you.

00:24:58.280 And have a nice day.

00:24:59.400 And while activists want to blame climate change, maybe if it is climate change, you still

00:25:04.900 have to deal with this problem.

00:25:07.660 You don't get to be a state like California that blames climate change and then refuses

00:25:12.360 to hire enough firefighters.

00:25:14.140 By all means, blame the world.

00:25:15.460 Say it's my fault person.

00:25:16.520 Say, Tim Poole, you made climate change happen.

00:25:18.820 Fine.

00:25:19.360 You still need to hire more firefighters.

00:25:21.740 Why don't you do it?

00:25:22.600 You still need to fill your reservoirs.

00:25:24.820 Why don't you do it?

00:25:26.040 You still need to build new ones.

00:25:28.660 Make every excuse in the book.

00:25:30.340 But I ain't playing that game.

00:25:32.220 So I'll throw it to my good friend, Bill Burr.

00:25:34.220 I know he's a comedian and he's being funny, or at least trying to be.

00:25:38.160 The issue is that wasn't a comedic bit.

00:25:41.340 That was him on a nightly talk show speaking to, I'd say the country, but Jimmy Kimmel's ratings 0.99

00:25:47.580 aren't that good, misinforming them and presenting an argument that we are all stupid, that a 1.00

00:25:54.500 former L.A. fire chief who said misstep after misstep was some moron in his underwear on 1.00

00:26:01.520 the internet. 1.00

00:26:02.500 Come on, guy.

00:26:03.380 If we're going to make sure this doesn't happen in the future, and we hope that it won't,

00:26:08.180 we have to address the problems and we have to do it dispassionately.

00:26:12.620 Just say it like it is.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - January 16, 2025

Bill Burr Yells FREE LUIGI, Democrat Policy FORCED Insurance Companies To FLEE LA Wildfire

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